If you're referring to the same study that I think you are (and I think you are because I failed to locate any studies of similarity) then you misunderstood the real implications of the results. It wasn't simply that the primates were upset that one was being paid better (in grapes rather than cucumbers). The results of the study showed that the primates became upset when the other was paid better FOR THE SAME JOB. At the same time, if the primates were complete strangers the primate receiving a grape instead of a cucumber was upset and would refuse to eat it until the other got a grape.
On the topic of food stamps, I would love to reconduct this study whereas FOR THE SAME JOB one primate gets food and the other gets nothing. Because, essentially, we are all working the same job of meaningless existences (regardless of whether you spend the existence traveling as a bum or working as a wage slave or whatever your cup o tea is) and some of us can farm our own food or purchase our own food with the money the government let's us keep, and some of us can't or don't or won't and use food stamps instead. The ETHICS of food stamps is subjective to each individual and downright irrelevant. If you think you're higher up in the social hierarchy than someone else because you deem their efforts unworthy and therefore they're unworthy of food, whatever. I guess it's a good thing you, personally, ain't the government. But since the government is gonna shove their dick in every single thing I do anyway, the least they can do is buy me some decent fucking food for my belly. Or buy someone a hundred crates of avocados if that's what they want out of it. It sounds to me like some of us are really just pissed that they are working SO HARD to pay their taxes and live a good Babylonian life without qualifying for food stamps while some of us are working so little to not pay taxes and live a good anti-babylonian life with the luxury of free food that someone else's taxes paid for.
Leeen, please review what I wrote:
"Studies in primates have shown they get very upset when they observe another primate receiving more reward than they did
for the same task." (emphasis added).
So, I acknowledged and in fact specifically noted it was for the same task, which of course is very central to the point, as it explains pre-existing roots for the resentment and to demonstrate why that resentment may be somewhat primitive, and absent the higher cognitive processes that form a more developed reasoning for the good that food stamps do.
You are welcome to view existence as meaningless, and view yourself or others that way, but I frequently find meaning in what I do.
Moreover, the hyperbole of "the government shoving their dicking in everything I do" indicates you may have some emotional things going on in your response to this, which is fine, but please read again what you're responding to, I did recognize that it was for the same task.
I don't mind working to pay food stamps, and I have said so. It appears both in detail and in a broader sense you are over generalizing (and in some cases just clearly missing) what is said in what you're responding to.
